When the Jews supported Hitler
Two media-savvy Muslim clerics have covertly offered their support to Narendra Modi. Maulana Mehmood Madani represents a faction of the Sunni Jamiatul Ulema-i-Hind. Maulana Kalbe Sadiq speaks for a section…
Interviewing Hitler
Strange that I had just finished reading George Sylvester Vierick’s landmark 1923 interview with Adolf Hitler when Indian TV channels went viral over a fellow Indian journalist’s meeting with Narendra…
Respected Hitlerji, please don’t be so unfair!
With clockwork precision and often with a detailed script, fascism consolidates itself in stages. In the advanced mode, ideologically driven street lumpens are let loose to terrorise the people and…
Kunal Kamra’s lonely furrow
CREATIVE ways abound to resist oppression be it from one’s own state or a foreign occupation power; but to defeat or vacate the menace is another ballgame. Cinema, theatre, dance,…
Leadership — intellect or wisdom?
Intelligence matters for leadership. Its presence is seen as a guarantee for good leadership to prevail. The premise of this thought relies on the hair splitting of intelligence into social, practical…
History’s echoes
TWO fateful decisions authored by the British government — the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the Radcliffe Award of 1947 — involved territory (still in dispute) and millions of displaced…
The view from Aurangzeb’s grave
WHAT else was happening in the world when Mughals ruled India from 1526 till Aurangzeb’s death in 1707? The strange question flows from stranger demands by Hindu nationalists to raze…
A hard state
Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir's determination to transform Pakistan into a hard state has started a new debate on social media. The statement came to light during the…
Rise of far right
EUROPE has been marching rightward for some time, with voters in France, Portugal, Belgium, and Austria following this trend. Germany’s election results continued this trajectory, as Friedrich Merz, leader of…
Gambling with World War III
TOO many opposite and unyielding opinions are ranged on the subject, which requires an explanatory note before coming to the point. The ungainly White House spat between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky…
